"I remember a sentence that a
day seemed stupid to me, or at least strange, and which concerned
the identification between all the components of a fighting unit,
absolute in such a way that the concept of 'I' completly disappeared
for leave the place to 'we.' It was a communist ethic and naturally
it was (and is) beautiful are able to feel this emotion of the 'we'
"

(Ernesto Che Guevara, from the jail
of Mexico City, 1956)

August 17th, 1995 the United States from
America are willing to carry out the execution of the death penalty
for Mumia Abu Jamal; after 15 years of death row they want to assassinate
this black militant already a member of the Black Panthers, of the 'Move'
organization that has become also from the jail the megaphone of the
oppressed inside the Usa and all over the world.

Like Italian revolutionary prisoners
we stand beside Mumia and we unite to the international mobilization
that wants to prevent his legally sanctioned death .

Only a concrete and strong international
and internationalist solidarity can stop a political decision that the
United States has taken in order to strengthen their politics of order
against every form of internal opposition and in order to reaffirm their
role of leader of the counterrevolution and of the proletarian repression
all over the world. The wish of Governor Ridge of carring out this nth
murder of state is not at all casual nor contingent. This choice is
part of the strategy of annihilation that the amerikan imperialistic
state has carried out and go on in carring out against the struggles
of emancipation and of resistance of the proletarians and of the oppressed
people inside and outside of his borders.

The planned execution of Mumia has the
same intent of that of tenth of Black Panthers murdered in the streets,
of the black families of the Moves bombed and burnt alive in their houses,
of the American Indians dispossessed of their earth, of the Portoricans
persecuted in their island and in the metropols, of the white Northamericans
annihilated in jail for having chosen to fight against the Yankees'
empire from inside the beast. These are the costs of the inside pacification
that Usa must secure itselves in order to impose the new world order
outside. Since 50 years Usa are developping the role of world policeman-power:
on the base of an 'economy of war in a time of peace' they have generalized
and internationalized the processes of war all over the world against
whoever endanger their hegemony and the imperialistic peace. With the
invasions and every kind of interferences in their 'home-garden' and
beyond in the past years: from Korea to Vietnam, from Nicaragua-Salvador-Guatemala
to Libia, to Libanon and to Palestina, from Iraq to Somalia and Haiti.

And with the interventions of this period:
in Chiapas the Usa furnishes the political and military support to the
government and to the Mexican army in order to repress the struggle
of the National Army of Zapatist Liberation. In the former Yugoslavia
the operations of war of the Western countries avail themselves of the
huge amerikan air apparatus dislocated in the European bases, above
all in Italy, and of the amerikan naval force flanked by the multinational
forces in the Adriatico Sea in order to favor and consolidate his penetration
and expansion toward the East. At the base of this warmonger activism,
of his threatening celebration through the media, there is the structural
crisis-decline of the economic power of the Usa in the world, there
is the crack of their centrality on the economic and political level.
With the war and his constant threat, the Usa try to consolidate their
military predominance all over the world in order to secure to the monopolistic
capital of the USA multinationals in the world a position of force in
the competition with other capitals. The war, in other words, is the
best tool of defense of the production, of the commerce, of the credit
and of the amerikan financial activities in each country.

The economic crisis develops shrill contradictions
also inside the national Usa border mining the social bases on which
the empire stands up: officially beyond 40 millions of people live under
the threshold of poverty, 37 millions have no public health assistance,
the homeless reach up to the 3 millions, at the same time the exploitation
at the place of work has reached up to unbearable levels. In the attempt
of holding under control this explosive situation that has already revealed
itself in the repeated mass-revolts of the principal metropols, the
USA administration is militarizing more and more the whole society,
stirring up a real internal war of forced pacification against the Black,
Portoricans, Mexican, Indian, white proletarians and attacking the conquests
and the conditions of life of the working class.

FFrom this need derives the pitilessness
of the repressive legislation and

of the amerikan prison system that doesn't
have equal in the world. More than a million of people are costantly
kept in the jails in force of a racist repression that privileges the
Black minority (to arrive to the USA levels the italian prison population
should be multiplied for five!!), the capital punishment has been restored
in almost every state and now the life sentence is automatically granted
in different states, because after three crimes -even if their gravity
is very small- it is compulsory applied . The politics against the organized
criminality and the declared 'war to the drogues' are above all an enduring
strategy of control of the proletarians quarters of the big cities and
of reactionary mobilization of the masses in support of the global USA
counterrevolution, despite the admiration for the 'american democracy'
proclaimed in each occasion by the italian right and left politicians!

The planned execution of Mumia Abu Jamal
is part of this internal and international context: a conscious and
rebel voice like his must be extinguished for ever and his physical
execution should be examplar, because since ever the imperialistic dictat
is: "to abolish the revolutionary prisoners as a political element".
Forced to recognized their existence as active subjects after years
and years of isolation, of murders, of beating-ups, of campaigns of
desolidarization, of psychological poisoning and surrender, means already
admitting an unsolved contradiction for the governments that is able
of trasforming itself in a point of force for the proletarians and the
revolutionaries that are fighting all over the world against imperialism.

For this the battle in the imperialistic
jails -and that for the freedom or the death of Mumia- is completly
political and has always the subjective identity of the prisoners as
its subject.

FFrom the Usa -the first to elaborate
and experiment the scientific programs

of annihilation of the revolutionary
prisoners, importing against the militants of the Black Panthers the
practics of desolidarization adopted against the vietnamite prisoners
in the jail of Paulo Condor under the banner of "abjuration or
annihilation"- these systems have been exported in the other poles
of the imperialistic chain against the militant of the metropolitan
guerrilla and of the movements of national liberation. An unique politics
from Germany to Italy, to Spain, to France and to Belgium, to Ireland,
to Turkey aimed at differencing and keeping under pressure all those
prisoners that don't fit to the machineries of the so-called 're-socialization'.

It is the political revolutionary identity
of Mumia Abu Jamal that they want to be suppress: the memory and the
future of the struggle that it reminds and represents in that country.
The Usa are ready for a political murder in the same way they were ready
in the case of the communist Rosemberg 50 years ago!

It is important to demystify in the class
and revolutionary movement that common place that considers the steady
conditions of imprisonment and the future of the revolutionary prisoners,
both in the Usa and in Europe and in every part of the world, a remainder
of the past confrontation. Mumia will be killed -if we won't be able
to stop them with the force of the international mobilization- not for
what he would have done according to a well instrumented framing-up,
but for his class and revolutionary identity: proletarian, Black revolutionary
in struggle against the imperialism from his inside.

The perpetuation of this murder of state
intended also to be a stroke against the process of construction of
the conscience of class of the international proletariat.

Every revolutionary process, historically,
in each area of the world, has had some of its militant kept in prison.
Each revolutionary movement in his struggle against the imperialism
has always therefore had a captive part of it that goes on in being
an active part of this struggle. This is the historic experience of
the revolutionary international movement and has always to be remembered
in front of the imperialistic attempt of transforming the revolutionary
militants, after their capture, in hostages, in tools of blackmail and
of pressure in which it wants to destroy every rest of humaneness and
conscience.

In the Usa -while they wants to assassinate
Mumia- they try to destroy tenth of revolutionary prisoners in the holes
of the isolation, in Germany they perpetue and improve the 20-years-long
isolation of the prisoners that resist and maintain their revolutionary
identity, the same is happening in France, Belgium, Ireland, Turkey
and in the busy Palestina. In Italy, -after the massive skimming of
the revolutionary prisoners across manifold ways of resocialization,
they reserve to the comrades condemned to life sentence the treatment
of the diurnal isolation (already programmed in the jail of Trani for
two comrades, between which Vittorio Bolognese that must discount the
additional punishment of 18 months of diurnal isolation beyond the life
sentence and after 13 years of prison). Beyond the poisoning smokes
of the pacification, of the end of the emergency and the social recycling,
what in reality is perpetuating itself in each imperialistic jail is
the strategy of "abjuration or annihilation" of who resists
and affirms his revolutionary identity. For this the defense of the
revolutionary identity and the liberation of the antimperialistic prisoners
is a subject that strategically has occupied and will always occupy
a precise place in the power confrontation between the international
proletariat and the imperialistic bourgeoisie. As italian revolutionary
prisoners we are close to everyone in and outside the Usa jails, in
Europe and everywhere in the world resists and fights for the defense
and the development of the revolutionary subjectivity, because we are
completely conscious that the common international struggle unite us
against the imperialism.

Our heart beats for the comrade Mumia
Abu Jamal!

We call for the international unity
in the struggle against his planned murder every revolutionary prisoner
and the revolutionary movement in order to build together communication,
connections and organization against the imperialistic barbarity.